Projektnummer

0061817

Zusammenfassung

The current research proposal aims to elucidate how cellular life began and seeks to contribute to or even resolve the continuing debate about whether RNA based genomic information was required to instruct assembly of the first protocells, or conversely, if pre-existing peptide-rich compartments with a minimal metabolism may have been critical for the evolution of replicative RNA molecules. By leveraging the different but complementary expertise in origin-of-life research of three labs, the potential of the research team's recent discovery that diluted, charged peptides and RNA co-accu...